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About
We're a practical data privacy and protection consultancy helping organisations build stakeholder trust by delivering data privacy globally and locally.
Headquartered in London - with offices in Europe, the Caribbean and the US - we have practical on-the-ground experience in most of the world's privacy regimes with our team of international experts operating across dozens of jurisdictions.
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Our client base covers over 50 countries, so we are conversant with multiple privacy legislations and data transfer protocols.
Data protection comes with significant regulatory risk, and it's a complex topic. There are now over 130 countries that have data protection laws and regulations.
When you choose Securys, you won’t get the ‘A team’ selling to you and the ‘D team’ delivering the projects. We live by our Privacy Made Practical® principle and that is why each of our management team members is also directly involved in project work.
Group Chief Executive
Ben was formerly founder and CEO of Managed Networks, a leading UK managed services provider.
He holds a number of non-executive roles, including serving on the boards of TechUk and the BCS.
Ben is a CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM and an IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, BCS Fellow and a Chartered IT Professional.
A regular speaker at industry events, Ben also makes frequent broadcast media appearances. He writes on a broad range of data protection and privacy-related issues and challenges.
Director
Sara is a co-founder of Securys and a member of the Board. She heads up Securys’ operations and leads client-facing teams which work across multiple sectors and jurisdictions around the world.
A regular speaker at industry events, Sara writes and makes broadcast appearances.
She is a CISA and CIPP/E, and also holds PRINCE2 and ITIL certifications.
Director
John has worked in a wide variety of leadership roles in diverse sectors including media, healthcare and non-profit.
A member of the Securys Board, he leads on product development across the Group as well as aiEthix, the firm's dedicated AI practice.
He heads the privacy assessment practice for Securys, managing the risk scoring and consultancy team.
John writes regularly on privacy, data protection and AI challenges and speaks at industry events.
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Practice Lead
Marc is a data protection, governance specialist and Practice Lead.
He has helped build the Data Protection Office (DPO as a Service) practice for clients in the Caribbean and globally and has served as the Data Protection Officer in small and mid-sized financial services organisations in Europe.
Originally from California, Marc has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) in organisational governance.
An IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, he also holds the CIPP/E, CIPM and the CIPPA.
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Group Chief Executive
Ben was formerly founder and CEO of Managed Networks, a leading UK managed services provider. He exited that business in 2018 in a trade sale. Ben had also held a number of non-executive roles, including serving on the boards of TechUk and the BCS.
Ben is a CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, FIP and CIPM, IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, BCS Fellow and a Chartered IT Professional.
"My career has been about building companies by finding practical solutions to complex problems. Although my background is in technology, my interest is in people. Securys is about trying to balance the interests of everyone affected by data - consumers, employees, controllers, processors - to deliver the benefits of technology and achieve growth without causing harm."
Director
Sara is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a PRINCE2 AND ITIL practitioner; she's held a number of senior roles including Head of Service Operations in IT outsourcing, where she managed resources, clients, projects and processes; Interim COO at an event registration, ticketing and intelligence company; IT director at a UK top-25 accountancy firm.
"I pride myself on providing timely, tailored, and practical data privacy advice. This advice balances protecting the individual's privacy and the objectives of the organisation.
This can be in my role as an outsourced data protection officer, supporting privacy by design and default for new projects or in conducting a data privacy audit."
Director
John is also proud to be a trustee of a small health-related charity and a school governor in sunny South London.
Practice Lead
He was previously a Director of Data Privacy and Sovereignty at Standard Chartered Bank and has had diverse exposure and experience across investment banking, crisis communications, the energy industry, and impact investing.
We work as a specialised data privacy and protection consultancy in over 50 countries. Our clients include some of the largest global firms in their sectors.
We bring global experience of data privacy and information security assessment and remediation from multiple sectors and perspectives and offer a vast array of certifications.
We have practical on-the-ground experience in most of the world’s privacy regimes and know where to look for the conflicts between them.
Our approach is strategic, risk-driven, forward looking, positive and practical – our recommendations are not theoretical or academic interpretations, they are implementable plans.
We bring continuously evolving audit and discovery tools with risk-scoring and flow through to dashboard and recommendations.
Securys has been making privacy practical for organisations since 2014. We work across a wide variety of client types, including enterprise, SME, schools and charity organisations. The scope of their privacy needs is wide and varied but all our clients receive the same quality of service and care.
Our focus is on practical operational delivery of effective data privacy for all your stakeholders.
We’re not just a consultancy. We’re your privacy engine room. We can stand in your boardroom and do strategy with the best of them, and work with your compliance teams to solve knotty problems. We can audit your compliance and deliver drillable risk dashboards across the organisation. Above all we can get involved at ground level and help your frontline teams get the job done. That’s Privacy Made Practical®.
Why not let Securys be your privacy engine, so you can focus on privacy strategy and leadership?
